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Evaluation of Stormwater System Influence on the River Using Algae
 
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Faculty of Fundamentals of Technology, Lublin University of Technology
 
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Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, B. Khmelnitsky Str. 15, Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine
 
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Sumy Makarenko State Pedagogical University, Romenska, 87, 40002 Sumy, Ukraine
 
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Institute of Rural Health in Lublin, Department of Woman Health, Jaczewskiego 2, 20-090 Lublin, Poland
 
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Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Nadbystrzycka 40B, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
 
 
Data publikacji: 01-02-2020
 
 
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Joanna Szulżyk-Cieplak   

Faculty of Fundamentals of Technology, Lublin University of Technology
 
 
J. Ecol. Eng. 2020; 21(2):214-221
 
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One of the widespread sources of river pollution is wastewater coming from both wastewater treatment plants and stormwatater system. Wastewater can vary significantly in composition and concentration of substances introduced into water bodies. Municipal effluents may contain significant amounts of organic matter and ammonia [Strom et al., 1976]. Storm drains are diverse in composition and depend on the nature of the surface from which the water collects, but carry more suspended solids and less nutrients. The research was aimed at the assessment of the effect of surface runoff collected by stormwater system from the territory of the city of Lublin on the Bystrica River using popular environmental indices, calculated on the basis of periphytonic algae species abundances: species number, Shannon's H, rarefied species number, Pielou's evenness, trophic diatom index (TDI). We observed, that the correspondence between a species diversity and the quality of the environment is not always straightforward. So, periphytonic algae diversity increases under the influence of runoff, as evidenced by the Shannon index. Nevertheless, pronounced changes are noted in the structure of the algal community, as shown by the Pielou index and NMDS. However, these changes in the structure are invisible if we rely on the trophic diatom index (TDI).
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